Example sentences of "of a [num] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was n't until Koussevitzky offered a commission of a thousand dollars from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation that Ben was seriously able to contemplate setting aside all the time that is required to write a full-scale opera . |
| 2 | The view from the summit is far reaching , extending over half of Scotland and a confused jumble of a hundred peaks to the islands of the Hebrides . |
| 3 | But we 're looking for something well in excess of a hundred hectares outside the city boundaries and essentially in the greenbelt . |
| 4 | He reckoned that the population of the day numbered somewhere between six and nine hundred people , but he based this on the fact that the laird pressed together an army of a hundred men for the ‘ 45 , and according to Johnson ‘ the sixth part of a people is supposed capable of bearing arms ’ . |
| 5 | Whitechurch wrote : ‘ The immense timber yard is enough to make one imagine that material had been laid in for building a fleet of a hundred arks after the pattern of Noah 's . |
| 6 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | It had been previously owned by Maurice Macmillan MP , son of the late Conservative Prime Minister Lord Stockton , and the Duchy paid over three-quarters of a million pounds for the property . |
| 8 | A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true . |
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| 10 | Telegrams of ‘ interest ’ and ‘ support ’ were received from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York respectively , and by the end of the year Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Buckland were claiming to have over a quarter of a million signatures on the Manifesto . |
| 11 | A DOCUMENTARY programme from NBC-TV in January 1973 , had such an impact that in the following 48 hours more than a quarter of a million copies of the associated book were sold . |
| 12 | For Britain 's three quarters of a million miners in the nineteen thirties and forties , dust was a massive problem . |
| 13 | A quarter of a million injectors in the city , 125,000 of them already HIV positive . |
| 14 | Every year , over a quarter of a million children under the age of 3 contract polio . |
| 15 | The government was keen to know more about the quarter of a billion youths in the population and the less than five per cent attending higher education institutions . |
| 16 | Instead of a dozen Indians on the raft there were only two , each with just a pole at the back of the raft . |
| 17 | If Leonard and Moore become an effective unit and Lions ' newcomer Martin Johnson plays to his normal form , there is the possibility of a dozen Englishmen in the second Test . |